Sex!! Bounce on a birthing ball. I'm doing that as we speak. Also drinking raspberry leaf tea and/or taking evening primrose oil supplements is supposed to help ripen the cervix and possibly help you dilate quicker

They gave me a liter of IV fluids to "space them out" but that only spaced them out about a minute longer 😓 guna try anything I can to get her out. hubby and I are about to go on a verrrrry long walk!! @emkasting

Eeek I'm sorry! That's no fun at all. I wouldn't be able to sleep through that either! I was gonna say take Tylenol pm but that has the exact same ingredient as Benedryl lol. So there's nothing they can do for you at all??

@emkasting, I hope your baby comes soon! I just went up to the hospital and they sent me back home because I'm still only 1 cm 😥 I still have 2 weeks to my due date but I'm so miserable. They keep telling me to take Benadryl so I can sleep through the pain for a little while but I'm allergic to Benadryl, it's in my chart.

@jnmich if your contractions are two minutes apart you should go to the hospital...

I was reading up on this yesterday because my due date is on Saturday and I haven't had any of the common signs, no mucus plug, no contractions, baby hasn't even dropped..nothing. So I was looking at the less obvious signs and I saw feeling nauseous/sick to your stomach, vomiting/diarrhea, a sudden outbreak of acne..just to name a couple. I started breaking out the last couple days randomly so I'm really hoping it's a sign labor is coming soon.

@theinkedmommy, thank you

I've been in first stage labor for a week now and contractions are 2 minutes apart and getting stronger. I didn't know if there are any other signs that I should be looking for, besides water breaking.

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